Stylosanthes humilis
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Stylosanthes humilis Kunth
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
- Stylosanthes mucronata Willd. (misapplied)
Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised)
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Crowley_2007 (2), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (13), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (10), Nano_2011 (2), Stephens_2021 (3), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 17 traits from 47 records in 11 datasets.
Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.
fire response
- resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 4.5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 2.5 mm (2.5-2.5 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): legume (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 13.67 mm (5-24 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 13.8 mm (1.8-35 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
- petiole_length (numerical): 0.35 cm (0.2-0.5 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_lanceolate (1); ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: NHNSW_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): annual (4); perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4); woody_base (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (2); erect (1); prostrate (3) [sources: NHNSW_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2]
- flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyyynnnnn (2); nnyyyyyynnnn (1) [sources: Stephens_2021]
- bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.42 m (0.1-0.6 m) [sources: NHNSW_2023; WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NHNSW_2023 | 10 | 13 | N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/. |
| NTH_2023 | 7 | 10 | D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/. |
| NHNSW_2022 | 4 | 4 | N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/. |
| NTH_2022 | 4 | 4 | D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 4 | 4 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Stephens_2021 | 1 | 3 | R. Stephens. “Unpublished data: Flowering time data from TERN plots, Macquarie University.”. 2021. |
| Crowley_2007 | 2 | 2 | G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au). |
| Nano_2011 | 2 | 2 | C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x. |
| WAH_2023_2 | 1 | 2 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |